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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Aug 1 2012 Saas Fee day #3 on snow




Another fabulous day of training. We had our first real early start with athletes. Up at 5:50am on the hill at 7 AM!!! Great GS training for all groups. We had two short courses one with simple GS rhythm and a separate brush apex course. Athletes were making progress with stance changes and movement patterns. Coaches are psyched with great attitudes and work ethic.
For Dry land today we had Herr Kirschman (owner of the Sonnenhof) take us on the coolest tour of the surrounding sights of the ares around Saas Fee. We saw 100 yr old structures and cool avalanche barriers. We even got to see some weird farm animals. We saw the world cup hill, steeeep!!!! and also spent some time at a glacier pool and barefoot walking path that is made to massage and rejuvenate the hikers as they come off the trail. Kids loved it as well as coaches. It really helped with shin bang and sore calf's and feet. Good as new after 5 laps in the ice cold water and a walk around the massaging foot path of wood chips onto stepping blocks and finish on little pebbles, it was really really neat. One more

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